Fr. Lawrence M. Pizzuti
Teacher in the Franciscans’ Immaculate Conception Province 1926-1933. Parish priest in the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Albany from 1942. Died 5/2/1977. In approximately 2001 a man told the Diocese that he was sexually abused for many years, beginning when he was age 15, by Pizzuti and another deceased priest, at our Lady of Victory in Troy. The Diocese offered him counseling and $4K. The man refused. A second man came forward in 7/2003 to report that he had notified the Diocese in 2002 that Pizzuti abused him once at age 15. The Diocese offered him counseling; in 4/2003 they gave him a check for $7K to settle his claims, without telling him of the earlier claim.
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